Paul Okstad
Senior Software Engineer at Hard Coded Fitness, LLC
Huntington Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Okstad is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems across startups and enterprise teams, currently at CrowdStrike in Huntington Beach. He specializes in idiomatic Go, distributed microservices, and edge/mobile computing, and has led transitions to Go, gRPC/Protobuf, and robust CI practices to improve developer productivity. As co-founder of a successful fitness app, he combines full-stack development, localization, and customer-driven UX iteration with hands-on DevOps and backend services. Paul is a pragmatic mentor who prioritizes readable, testable code and knowledge sharing to make teams more autonomous—his stated goal is to make his own role obsolete through engineering and coaching. A former systems engineer at Boeing, he balances safety-critical discipline with startup agility, and enjoys minimalist Go design paired with practical automation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science B.S., Computer Science, Computer Science B.S., Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
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Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pokstad/pokstad.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
My static site hosted on Github
Contributions:69 commits, 4 PRs, 83 pushes in 3 years 6 months
static-sitehostedjekyllstatic-site-generator
pokstad/gomate
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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